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Cover your selfe with your shield, and care not for cryes.
Cover your selfe with your shield, and care not for cryes.
A sword laid by,
Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously.
A sword laid by,
Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously.
Advise none to marry or goe to warre.
Advise none to marry or goe to warre.
Through tattered clothes small vices do appear;
Robes and furred gowns hide all.
Through tattered clothes small vices do appear;
Robes and furred gowns hide all.
The weakest goes to the wall.
The weakest goes to the wall.
The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on
other matters.
The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on
other matters.
I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heire.
I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heire.
The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of
self-control.
The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of
self-control.
